Casualties and losses
Soviet:
14,453 Killed (total) [3]
9,511 killed in combat [3]
2,386 died from wounds [3]
2,556 died from disease and accidents [3]
53,753 Wounded [3]
311 Missing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan

total of 14453 russians killed and 53753 wounded, so yeah, they killed more than 3000 russians in 1978.

USSR went into Afghanistan because they wanted a Soviet puppet

US went into Afghanistan because Al Qaeda killed 3000 people in DC and NYC and the Taliban said "no you can't have them, t hey're our bros"

except we know what Brezhnev had in mind and what the KGB paratroops reported when they stormed the palace in 1979 so we know they did not mean any such thing

so you could say it

but you would a liar

trick question

whats the name of the person who wrote taht?

i mean it COULD be a Ph.D. in Soviet studies from Columbia University with nothing better to do

but I doubt it

yeah guys named Borisov in their basement office in Bulgaria

It always reminds me of Rambo 3 where he is riding with the noble Taliban to fight off the soviets.

TImes change though, it is naive to think any country is governed by morals, Britain and America have installed and supported brutal dictatorships only to then turn on them when they no longer served a purpose.

This is not neccesarily a bad thing, the role of a government is to provide for its people and further the countries aims - supporting militants when they are fighting an enemy (the soviets) makes sense.

So does removing them when they bite the hand that feeds.

Your video equates an invasion by a communist USSR with a US response to terrorist attacks with the _clear intention of giving control to a democratic Afghanistan_. An invasion with the purpose of gaining a satellite state to impose communist control over and an invasion with the purpose of removing terrorist-harboring/encouraging totalitarian dirtbags and replacing them with the country's own people aren't exactly identical. There are a few obvious differences that the retarded individuals who put your video together were obviously not able to grasp. I'm not saying there's anything wrong with being retarded. I'm just saying that you can probably find better sources of information and thought-provoking media than that which retarded individuals (or groups, for that matter) produce.

Mujahideen

The West gave them guns, bombs, and training to fight off invaders. They have since become terrorists of their own free will, their own choice.
If you want to blame The West for something, some source of evil we can all use to distract ourselves from the dirt and drudgery of our working lives, point at Iran.

> Chickenwingz wrote:

> Casualties and losses
Soviet:
14,453 Killed (total) [3]
9,511 killed in combat [3]
2,386 died from wounds [3]
2,556 died from disease and accidents [3]
53,753 Wounded [3]
311 Missing

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_war_in_Afghanistan

total of 14453 russians killed and 53753 wounded, so yeah, they killed more than 3000 russians in 1978.

rofl!

>>total of 14453 russians killed and 53753 wounded, so yeah, they killed more than 3000 russians in 1978.
rofl!<<

1978 is one year before the war started.

>>Why are we discussing this anyway? It's not like America is going to say "Look, I'm sorry, alright? I was a greedy, selfish twat and I [bleep]ed everything up, k? Now what do you want me to do about it?" not because it can't, but because the people aren't ready yet. That and America still thinks it can fix everything.<<

And the USA is to blame for the Holocaust, because we funded German reconstruction after the first world war.  Yes we did it 20 years before the Holocaust for a totally different reason, but sitting on your ass in front of a computer in a differnet country, the parallels are exact and it pisses off all the right people to say so.

Why not repeat the one aobut America being to blame for WW2.  See if we'd acted towards Hitler like Bush did to Saddam, of course the rest of Europe would have followed our example.  The average Frenchman and Brit just hoped some American would come along and tell him what to do.  Go ahead and repeat that one, it was very popular for a long time.

>>Like it or not America is going to have to sit and watch as Iran falls to crap and chaos from the inside, all the while knowing that "I did that. That's my fault."
And that will be a very sobering day indeed.<<

Internal revolt is the best case scenario, as opposed to the first World War that starts outside Europe and drags the rest of us in.  I hope we can cause such a revolt, it will solve problems and be less bloody than a general war out there.

The average Brit was too concerned with fighting Japan, Italy and Germany on our own for two years to sit around waiting for Americans to tell us what to do